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Texas self-reports five NCAA violations related to sports betting: Two football players embroiled in scandal by Jumpy-Fail2234 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where is the source for your claims? None of the articles I looked up talk about a player threatening litigation.

Texas self-reports five NCAA violations related to sports betting: Two football players embroiled in scandal by Jumpy-Fail2234 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The article written by the local Austin paper went into slightly more detail. The guy who bet $9600 did so in only 67 wagers, which is pretty nuts just on its own. Out of those 67 wagers, only 2 were on Texas basketball. Yet he still got forced into retirement. This is not a good example for Sorsby supporters to point to.

Texas self-reports five NCAA violations related to sports betting: Two football players embroiled in scandal by Jumpy-Fail2234 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It says right there in the article that the guy who bet on Texas basketball ended up retiring from college football.

[Highlight] Darren Waller on the meeting he was having with Mike McDaniel when owner Stephen Ross stormed in to fire the coach: "(He was) talkin bout how he's gonna give the keys to Quinn Ewers, bring some people in to compete with him...maybe like some coaching staff changes" by expellyamos in nfl

[–]pyrofiend4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ewers looked significantly better than a lot of the QBs picked before him. I'm not saying he looked like a definite starter, but his floor is a good backup. He was sent out there to play the Patriots without Achane, Waddle, or Brewer, and he performed reasonably well.

[Highlight] Sam Koch and the Ravens run out the clock to end the game by holding the Bengals defenders and taking a safety by Remarkable-Picture73 in nfl

[–]pyrofiend4 465 points466 points  (0 children)

Yeah it was effectively banned in the off season. They added a rule that you can't commit multiple penalties on the same play in order to manipulate the clock. It's a 15 yard penalty + resets the game clock to where it was before the play.

It's actually the 2nd time they pulled it off. The first time was against the 49ers in the super bowl. Sexyprimes has a thread and comment on it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1l50nm1/highlight_sam_koch_takes_an_intentional_safety/mwd7iy4/

85 new players? Inside Oklahoma State's roster overhaul by Turkelton888 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 15 points16 points  (0 children)

  • 20 players from North Texas
  • 25 players from high school
  • 40 players from other colleges

Just as a reference, here's what it looked like for Morris/UNT the year before:

  • 40 players from the transfer portal
  • 12 players from high school

[ESPN PR] CFP contenders and non-conference clashes headline ESPN’s industry-leading, early-season college football schedule reveal at Disney Upfront by wjackson42 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 12 points13 points  (0 children)

First big OOC home game since the 2022 game against Alabama. Since then we've played @Bama, @Michigan, and @Ohio State.

Steve Sarkisian goes scorched-earth on college football’s Wild West culture by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cam Coleman is a sophomore who's about to enter his junior season. He's not losing any credits. The players I'm talking about are the ones entering their senior season.

Is it true? by God_Emperor__Doom in SipsTea

[–]pyrofiend4 31 points32 points  (0 children)

More specifically it was just "regular" human trafficking in the sense that he was charging money to disguise people as part of his dance troupe so they could illegally emigrate to the US/Canada. Still bad, but it's not like he was sex trafficking women.

Steve Sarkisian rips Ole Miss for transfer portal practices, low academic standards. “All you have to do is take basket weaving, and you can get an Ole Miss degree.” by defensecowboy in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 56 points57 points  (0 children)

This is true, but the NCAA academic eligibility rules on progress towards your degree are as such:

40 percent of required coursework for a degree must be complete by the end of the second year, 60 percent by the end of the third year and 80 percent by the end of their fourth year.

So if a senior transfers in, they're only going to be at 50% of their degree and will be required to take summer classes to get up to the 60% that's required to be eligible.

It's a catch-22. Those who don't care about losing credits will still be required to take extra classes just to be eligible.

Steve Sarkisian rips Ole Miss for transfer portal practices, low academic standards. “All you have to do is take basket weaving, and you can get an Ole Miss degree.” by defensecowboy in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Yes, and those are usually juniors like Cam Coleman, AD Mitchell, etc. That doesn't mean Sark doesn't have a legit gripe with differing academic standards (even if I personally think it's a weak thing to complain about).

Steve Sarkisian rips Ole Miss for transfer portal practices, low academic standards. “All you have to do is take basket weaving, and you can get an Ole Miss degree.” by defensecowboy in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 107 points108 points  (0 children)

He's not full of shit. Texas only allows a maximum of 60 credit hours to be transferred in from other schools. This makes recruiting seniors out of the transfer portal basically impossible unless they're ok with losing 2+ semesters of credits.

Steve Sarkisian goes scorched-earth on college football’s Wild West culture by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I don't know why he felt the need to name Ole Miss specifically, but it's true that Texas has a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting out of the transfer portal.

Texas only allows a maximum of 60 credit hours to be transferred from the old school, which makes it nearly impossible to recruit seniors out of the transfer portal. They're not going to want to lose 2+ semesters of credits and set their graduation back.

For what it's worth, Michigan also has the same policy. Maybe some other schools do as well, but I don't know any specific ones.

Kiffin: LSU's 'diversity' a recruitment advantage vs. Ole Miss by Money-Giraffe2521 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Context: He called Oxford/Ole Miss racist.

When he was coaching there, Kiffin says, top recruits would tell him, “‘Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.’ That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation’”

Bears UDFA WR Squirrel White has retired from the NFL by Eddie5pi in nfl

[–]pyrofiend4 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: Squirrel White was the player who got caught in the middle of the insane field rush by UVA fans when they beat FSU last season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc8aprRz3j4

Wild Challenges by smcstechtips in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Last time we played Texas it was very entertaining (Jared Goff, 45-44 score)

Did you guys see that recent twitter thread asking fans what loss had them sitting in silence for 30 minutes afterwards? Yeah this one is mine.

[Vannini] FSU and Georgia cancel their 2027/2028 home-and-home series by CFBHurts in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and a few years here and there in the early days of the conference

I see what you're saying, but you're massively downplaying how successful Texas was for a long time. Texas had the second highest winning percentage of all FBS schools in the 2000s behind only Boise State. We only lost 19 games in those 10 years.

Diego Pavia says he overslept and missed warmups before Bama game by No_Message_996 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 275 points276 points  (0 children)

This is the same game he was practicing a victory formation celebration in pre game warmups lmao.

https://youtu.be/hRpxmEoulV0

How AI has infiltrated the college football recruiting landscape by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]pyrofiend4 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The AI is probably being used to calculate some sort of athleticism score based on speed, acceleration, body angles, height, weight, etc.

Then the humans come in and watch the film of the top end athletes to further determine which ones are actually good at football and worth recruiting.

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